River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-03-17

Regular meeting of the Union on
Friday at 3 O'Clock at Mrs. Perley
Knowles.
Joseph Cook introduced Miss WILL
ard to his Monday lectures audience
as the chest known, most loved woman
in America"
The Rhode Island Senate passed a
bill to submit constitutional amend
ment comforting suffrage upon women,
by vote of 26 to s. This bill passed
a previous legislature, as all cOnstitu-
tional amendments must pass two
Legislatures before coming to vote of
the people, and will undoubtedly pass
the House."
Constable Logan, of Des Moines,
Iowa, was shot and killed by Joseph
A. Row, whom he was attempting to
arrest for violation of the liquor law. :"
The Blair Educational Bill failed to
become law, along with some 1900
others of more or less Importance.
Henry Ward Beecher' last appear
ance as public speaker was at meet
ing to protest against the saloon"
FOLLOWING PowDERLY's LEAD.
South birmingham, Mass, March
4th. Especial correspondence. The
knights of Labor of this place have
adopted strong preamble and resOlu-
ton on the question of the liquor
traffic, recognizing in the licensed rum
shop an enemy TO the honest toiler;
pledging hearty support, both individ-
ually and collectively, TO the citizens
of birmingham in their just efforts to
abolish the saloons and declaring that
the law ought to be enforced in its
strictest sense. and to this end recon-
mending careful selection of officers
pledged to support and enforce the
law.
Sincerity is not always mere consis-
tency. A very honest, earnest looking
at both sides may show like vacillatiOn
for a good while, but the act will at
last be true Mrs. A. ID. L. Whitney.
BEER SALOON IN A SOLDIERS HOME.
A valued correspondent who vouch-
es for the reliability of the informa-
ton given, sends us the following
extracts from private letter:
"You ask me if there is any truth in
the statement made in the slip you
sent me in your letter in regard to the
beer saloon in the Soldiers Home lat
Dayton Ohio. Yes, it is all true, but
the half has not been told. The saloon
was first opened on the 18th day of
last July, and has been running sue
sessfully ever since. 1t is in large
building fully one hundred feet long
by thirty feet wide, which has coun-
ter running its full length. 1t is fitted
up with all the appliances of an ordin-
airy saloon. Back of this counter runs
board partition, and behind this,
beer barrels are arranged at every few
feet, with faucets leading from them
into the bar-room. This bar-room is
crowded from the time it opens until
it closes, and twenty or thirty clerks
and walters are kept as busy as they
can possibly be drawing and handing
out the beer. There is steady stream
of the old veterans coming and going
all day long. The thirst of the old
heroes is something wonderful. They
drink and drink and still they call for
more. The glasses are very large, real
schooner. The beer is sold at five cts.
glass. 1t is stronger, OF in some way
different from beer gotten in any other
place. A brewery at Cincinnati has
the contract for furnishing it, and 1t
is said it is made especially for the
Home. Thesdrunkenness in the Home
is disgrace to the state and to the
nation.
Our correspondent adds the sugges-
tive comment that the saloon is great
pet with the officers and board of man.
ayers of the Home, as it yields them a
profit of many thousand dollars, and
they will not allow any one under
their control to say word against it.
-[Union Signal.
Who will deny that our government
is partner in the liquor traffic after
reading the following placard that was
posted on the Phoenix distilleries dur
ing the late riots in Chicago:
WARNING.-N is hereby given
that the United States Government
controls this property, and all persons
are forbidden, by word or act, to in
terfere with the operations of this
distillery.-R. Stone, Collector of In
| ternal Revenue.
Wouldn't it be good idea to place
u. 5. stamp on one boys and young
men for their protection from the
| evils of the traffic!